Washing-machine



(No Model.)

A A. oG-LE. WASHING MACHINE.

Patented Jn. 27, 1891.`

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ALBERT OGLE, OF MUNCIE, INDIANA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,338, dated January 27', 1891.

Application filed April 25, 1890. Serial No. 349,434. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT OGLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Muncie, in the county of Delaware and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin lVashing-Machiues,of which the following is a specification.

My said invention relates to that class of washing-machines which embody an opentopped substantially semi-cylindrical tub and rocking rubbers; and it consists, generally, in the combination of such a tub and two rubbers, one located inside the other and the two geared together, whereby a multiplied rubbing effect is secured with the ordinary motion of the operating-handle.

It further consists in certain details of construction, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and cn which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figure l is aperspective view of a machine embodying my said invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section of the same, the rubbers being shown in a position which they reach in operation; Fig. 3, a transverse vertical sectional view with the rubbers in the position they occupy when at rest; Fig. 4c, a detail view showing the particular form of gearing which I prefer to employ, and Fig. 5 a detail horizontal sectional View looking downwardly from the dotted line 5 5 in Figs. 3 and 4.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the tub of the machine, B the outside or bottom rubber, and C the inside or upper rubber.

The tub A is or may be of an ordinary and well-known construction. Centrally extending down from its upper edges are grooves a in the inside faces of its sides or in pieces attached thereto, which receive the gudgeons or shafts upon which. the rubbers operate. It is mounted upon legs A and provided with handles A2, and in one end there is a soapbox a', as shown, and as will be readily understood.

The rubber B is a semi-cylindrical rubber with a corrugated upper surface, and corre sponds in operation (except that it is pivoted) to the bottom of the ordinary tub, where the corrugations or ribs are stationary. It is provided with gudgeons I), which rest in the grooves a, in the inner surfaces of the sides of the tub, and with segments or gears B (preferably cast integral with said gudgeons,) by which it is operated, as will be presently explained. Then opera-ted, it swings back and forth on said gudgeons, which rest in the bearings formed by the bottoms of the grooves a.

The rubber O is substantially in general construction like the ordinary swinging rubbers to machines ot' this character. Itis provided with handles C and a central shaft C2, the ends of which enter the grooves a in the sides of the tub. This central shaft passes through slots in the handles and sides of this rubber and carries near its ends blocks C3, the lower surfaces of which are substantially segmental racks, and the inner surfaces of which are provided with ribs c3, which enter the slots in the sides of said rubber. By this means when said rubber is rocked back and forth said blocks are also rocked, and as the racks thereon engage with the corresponding racks on the rubber B said rubber B is also rocked, but in the opposite direction. Said blocks, however, do not follow said rubber C in its vertical movement, but rest continually upon and in engagement with the racks on the rubber B, this being permitted by the slots in the sides of said rubber C, up and down which the ribs on said blocks may freely move, or, rather, in operation said slots freely move over said ribs.

The operation of my said invention may be briefly described as follows: The rubber O is raised and the rubbers thus separated, (but without disengaging the segmental racks thereon,) and the clothes are placed between the rubbers. The cross-bar c of the handle C is then grasped by the operator, who rocks the rubber O back and forth by pushing and pulling on said handle in the ordinary and well known manner, and said rubber O, through the segmental racks, as before eX- plained, operates the rubber B, the motion of which, as will be readily understood, is always in the reverse direction to that of the rubber C.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-ent, is

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l. The combination, in a Washing-machine, of two rubbers, onelocated Within the other, the outer one having segmental racks at- 'cached centrally to its upper edge, and the inner one having central slots through its sides, blocks the lower edges of which are also segmental racks engaging with the racks on the outer rubber and the inner-sides whereof are ribs entering the slots in the sides of the inner rubber, and a shaft extending across the machine and resting at the ends in grooves in the sides thereof and upon which said blocks are mounted, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination,in a washing-machine, of the casing provided interiorly with vertical grooves in its opposite sides, an outer rubber mounted by ymeans of gudgeons in said grooves, an inner rubber having` upwardly extended handles at its center and slots exf tendingthrough said handles and thesides of said rubber, and a gearing consisting of segmental raeks secured to the upper edges of the outer rubber, and blocks the lower edges of which are segmental racks, and which are mounted in said slots in the sides of said inner rubber, and a shaft connected to said blocks, the 'ends whereof also rest in the grooves in the casing of the machine, substantially as setrforth. i

`In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 19th day of April, A. D. 1890.

ALBERT OGLE. [L s] Witnesses:

CHEsTER BRADFORD, JAMES A. WALSH. 

